USA Today Bestselling Author Alicia Rades presents a five-book contemporary fantasy starter collection into her bewitching paranormal worlds. Solve mysteries with psychics, dive into ocean depths with mermaids, and hunt vampires alongside shifters in these five series starters set in modern towns.In this collection, young women step into their power while slaying demons and deciphering clues to magical mysteries. These stories range from magical realism tales that take place in the...

A jihadist pledges his allegiance to al Qaeda with an unthinkable act...and the terrorist cell is just getting started.Raina Storm, CIA's most lethal operative is off the grid, leading a secluded and comfortable life with her six-year-old daughter in Barstow, California.But peace is short-lived when a former FBI agent and an ex-intelligence officer track Raina down and blackmail her into helping them stop a new threat.In a race against the clock, th...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!'Rudyard Kipling: Complete Works' contains:NOVELSThe Light that Failed (1891)The Naulahka (1892)‘Captains Courageous’ (1896)Kim (1901)STORIES (and poems)Plain Tales From the Hills (1888)Soldiers Three (1888)...

*THE HEARTWARMING KOREAN BESTSELLER**A new book from Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop*Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong Smiley Laundromat is a place where the extraordinary stories of ordinary residents unfold.It is already a haven of tranquility and reflection for locals, but when someone leaves a notebook behind...

You can choose where you live, serve, learn, and give. What about where you invest? What if you could align your investments with God's heart? Imagine the impact that you could have.As Christians, we seek to make God a part of every decision that we make—the way we parent, lead, serve, and spend. But what if God has a purpose and plan for the investing dreams that he has given you? A community of ministries, businesses, entrepreneurs, investors, and fund managers h...

Miso has reunited with the boy from her dreams, but much to her disappointment, there are still so many questions left unanswered...The more she digs, the more she feels things aren’t adding up. Why doesn’t Sungyeon remember her? What is the spider that haunts her memories? How did Youngjun get those strange scars on his ankles? And just who in the world is Hyun?

The discipline of Old Testament theology seeks to provide us with a picture of YHWH and his relationship to the world as described in the Old Testament. But within this discipline, there are many disagreements about the key issues and methodologies:Is the Old Testament unified in some way?Should the context of the theologian play a role in interpretation?Should Old Testament theology merely describe what ancient Israel believed, or should it offer guidance...

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers of his era, and his novel "Kim", first published in 1901, has become one of his most well-known non-juvenile works.The novel takes place at a time contemporary to the book's publication; its setting is India under the British Empire. Hence, "Kim" is set in an imperialistic world; a world strikingly masculine, dominated by travel, trade and adventure, a world in which there is no question of the division between white and non-white...

“Fight and kill me.” Licht may have halted the three-hundred-year-long war, but with those words, Schmerman forces him to play the hero once again. Atop a long-fated stage, he faces off against his former teacher—the source of all the Ballots…and of all the Aces. To what end has Schmerman maneuvered for so many years, and why did he create Alcia? All those truths and more will be revealed in this final volume!

This is our Green Planet: a hidden world where plants care for other plants and can smell, taste, touch, hear and even . . . 'talk'.In the world of plants, time passes more slowly, but if we speed months into minutes we can peer into this hidden world and realise: it's a battleground. Plants are working to thwart their enemies, and to trick animals into working for them.Right under your feet, and all around you, is a secret world you've probably never notic...

Kim Chown was just 11 when her father Bernard Beaumont took her from her mother to Kenya. There, he tormented Kim with extreme sexual and emotional abuse, safe in the knowledge that as a pillar of the expat community his word would be believed over hers.Aged 20, Kim returned to England permanently, where she built a new life and a new family. However, she could not escape her father's influence, and eventually descended into alcoholism. But, after almost losing her life, Kim fought...

We all make assumptions, and these are the building blocks for our unconscious biases. They pervade the workplace and spill into our personal life. Dr. Stephens carefully walks you through a three-step model for overcoming unconscious bias. Step 1 is to raise awareness and unfreeze the undesired behavior. Step 2 is to change the behavior through transformational conversation. And Step 3 involves creating a plan to freeze the new, desired behavior. With relevant examples and research, Dr. S...